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Books, News November 22, 2024

WELCOME TO BOOKHOUSE!

The American Sephardi Federation is pleased to invite colleagues and the public to the sixth-floor Bookhouse at the Center for Jewish History, a consortium of Jewish libraries, archives, research institutes,…

Essays July 22, 2024

Rethinking Holocaust Memory

  “Right now, we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people.”…

Books May 3, 2024

Biography of a Lost World

A Sephardi Turkish Patriot and the history of the post-Ottoman Mediterranean Several books published in the last years explore the experience of Middle Eastern and North African Jews in the…

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News March 25, 2013

Centaur Award 2013

John Elkann presents the Centaur Award to John Turturro On May 20th, 2013, Centro Primo Levi hosted its first benefit Gala. On this occasion John Elkann presented the Centaur Award…

Essays March 24, 2013

Ferramonti, 70 Years After

International Conference Remembers the Concentration Camp of Ferramonti, 70 Years After the Liberation April 24 | 10 am to 6 pm, Centro Ebraico Il Pitigliani | Via Arco de’ Tolomei,…

Essays March 17, 2013

Hidden in Plain Sight

        Alessandro Cassin Translated by Mariuca Iosifescu As it often happened in the past,  among this year’s initiatives to commemorate Yom Hashoah, there is little mention of…

Essays March 17, 2013

From Sarajevo to Parma

From Sarajevo to Parma, a Jewish family during the Second World War In the days that preceded Christmas 1941, before the eyes of the stunned inhabitants of the community of…

Books March 31, 2012

Threads and Traces

        Carlo Ginzburg, Trad, John Tedeschi and Ann C. Tedeschi, Threads and Traces: True False Fictive, University of California Press, 2012 Carlo Ginzburg’s brilliant and timely new…

Books March 30, 2012

Mussolini and Fascism

        John P. Diggins, Mussolini and Fascism: The View from America, Princeton University Press, 1972 Mark Weber (Institute for Historical Review), America’s Changing View of Mussolini and…